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  1. reservednessnoun

    The characteristic of being reserved.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Reservednessnoun

    Closeness; want of frankness; want of openness.

    Etymology: from reserved.

    Observe their gravity
    And their reservedness, their many cautions
    Fitting their persons. Ben Jonson, Cataline.

    By formality, I mean something more than ceremony and complement, even a solemn reservedness, which may well consist with honesty. Henry Wotton.

    There was great wariness and reservedness, and so great a jealousy of each other, that they had no mind to give or receive visits. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

    Dissimulation can but just guard a man within the compass of his own personal concerns, which yet may be more effectually done by that silence and reservedness, that every man may innocently practise. Robert South, Sermons.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of reservedness in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of reservedness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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